The Skies are Against Me

Do you ever feel like when something isn't going right that it's a greater power conspiring against you? As if such a greater power would single you out to make sure that you didn't accomplish what you were after. As if you're important enough to be it's focus. Sometimes I find it comforting to think like that. To think that you just need to bide your time until the eye of Sauron type of being turns away from you. It's a device that I suppose I'm using to alleviate the frustration of that weekend of doom. If we'd gotten that site done we'd be here. That's me crying over spilled milk I suppose. I probably should wipe away my tears and move into more comforting subject matter. The Blue Jays playoff run? Well that likely isn't going to bring too much more enthusiasm out of me, although they did win last night, or I guess afternoon. The boys of BBM were sounding off on that fact. That MLB continually puts the Blue Jays in stupid time slots because they are Canadian and American audiences don't care outside of their opponent's city. It hurts their prime time numbers to have a Canadian team in the playoffs. Some conspiracy theorists out there are saying that what Bautista is perpetually whining about in terms of umpires is a symptom of the bigger issue. MLB makes less off the Jays succeeding so they see to it that they don't. They tried it on in the early nineties and that was enough. Now, don't get me and the tinfoil helmet people wrong, I'm not saying that games are outright rigged, don't forget the whole Black Sock scandal and how MLB felt about that, I'm just saying that some people might be of that mind that certain calls and breaks go against the Jays more often than their opponents. Wait, hold on, before you go lamenting about how I'm just a bitter fan trying to make excuses for my team's poor play, take notice that I'm not saying those things, simply repeating a theory. Myself I think it's their own fault and that of their easy going coaching staff. What I noticed from the games I watched (all the losses) is that Cleveland was pitching them away or soft and the Jays were all trying to pull the ball for power with every swing. The media talking about their home-runs and the success they had with Texas seemed to have been taken as an invitation to just swing for the fence on every pitch. The manager didn't do much to dispel this attitude either, saying they live by the long ball, die by the long ball. Well when death came a-calling, they stopped playing so stupidly and maybe realized you can't pull a breaking pitch into the 5th deck as a righty. I'm glad they did, but I'm sure baseball genius Tito Francona will adjust and it will have to be seen if the Jays are smart enough to counter his move before it's too late!